Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Cold Shooting Furn BY STEVE PARKER Sports Editor Philadelphia --Furman took advantage of an extremely cold Carolina shooting spell for a nine minute stretch in the second half to overcome the Gamecocks 76-67 Saturday night at the Palestra before a crowd of 1,042. The cold spell put an end to Carolina's season after just one game in the NCAA playoffs, while Furman continues on to play .9 E Goin T1 Headqu Corne * S Stops Gamec ian U Pittsburgh in the Easteri Regionals. While Carolina's shots rolled th rim and fell off, the Paladin outscored USC 23-6 from the 14:1 mark to the 5:19 mark to overcom a 53-41 Gamecock lead and g ahead 64-59. "We completely outplayed ther for the first eight or nine minutes c the second half and then w couldn't buy a basket," said USC Coach Frank McGuire. USC outscored Furman 15-2 t sprint to a 53-41 lead after trailin ALL INvta4W1 F1AL'Stt R'pG,}11FC oQE3hCk PgClr-1 AND LC~A IAoVT N~'ATU2t_ MARCH 13 .. J'f M RWUTELL 4-IOVS W - g TO The]I [oe Lev and Cese rters for mos r Lady & Assemb :reaking Shirts A .... ..~**~**~*.**..*.* *. ocks sets Car I at halftime 39-38, but then the Gamecocks hit their cold spell. e "Our shots just didn't drop," s said Guard Mike Dunleavy, "It's o pretty bad that we let them come e back after we had such a big lead o , but our shots just wouldn't fall. They were going in and coming a back out again. f "All the shots we took were good e shots," Dunleavy continued, "But i they wouldn't go in and they (Furman) brought them back o down and put them in. It wasn't our defense that hurt us, it was our offense. If we had had a better shooting night I think we could have beat them." Senior Brian Winters, who scored 22 points in his last collegiate game to finish the season with an average of exactly 20.0, said, "You have to give Furman credit. We missed our shots, but they were playing pretty good defense and we didn't get the second shots off the boards. "We've run into cold spells like this before, but what can I say? I am sorry that it happened. Tonight they beat us, maybe on another night we'd have won, but that's not the thing--we were playing tonight," Winters said. "I wish we had had this kind of day against Creighton instead of tonight," McGuire said, referring to the Gamecock victory last week in which Carolina shot 57 per cent from the floor to take a 78-69 win at Creighton. The Gamecocks shot only 38 per cent from the floor against Furman, and just 31 per cent in the second half. No Gamecock made over half of his shot attempts. Craig Lynch sank a pair of free throws to give Furman the lead 60 59, and BruceGrimm followed with a pair of jumpers to move Furman up by five before Winters coun tered with a jumper. Grimm hit one free throw and Alex 3each? rew t anything ly Sts. vailable ina s) English followed secon s later with an offensive tap to pull the Gamecocks within two points with 3:55 remaining. During the final minutes ^'arolina was forced to foul in an ittempt to come back and Furman .ook advantage of the one-and-one ;ituation to remain ahead. "Their big guys are very good," '1cGuire said. "And their little ;uys had good outside shots. If hey play like they did tonight they mave a very good chance of beating Nhoever they play next (Pitt ;burgh)." "(Clyde) Mayes was very tough inderneath, blocking shots and :oing everything. They're liable to be playing State if they play like they did tonight," McGuire said. Mayes sank nine of 13 shots in scoring 21 points to lead the Paladins. He also led everyone with 16 rebounds, five blocked shots and three steals. Grimm finished with 19 points, Lynch had 14, Fessor Leonard scored 11 and Ed Kelley had 10. Freshman Nate Davis followed Winters' 22 for Carolina with 16 points and 13 rebounds. Dunleavy had 12 and English 11 points. "I told the boys, 'You had a great year, keep your chins up'," McGuire said, following the close of his team's 22-5 season. PBNDE; TUESI 5 P.M. TIl STUDENT SIRLOIN STE AK CHOICE SIRLOIN SERVEI OR FRENCH FR THREE L( 348 Knox Abbot Bush River Roa4 4510 Devine F.tree Elopes 'I wish we had had this kind of day against Creighton instead of tonight.' --Frank McGuire USC Tops Penn State In Tennis The Carolina tennis team bounced back from a 6-2 loss to Virginia Friday and drubbed Penn State 8-1 Saturday afternoon at the Maxcy Gregg courts. In the singles division, USC netters won all matches with Fabrice Paquet winning 7-5,6-1Jeff Keflaos taking match 7-6, 7-6: and Andreas Hufschmid winning 6-3, 6 1. Also, Brian Desatnik won 6-1, 6 4; Tom Craig triumphed 6-3, 6-1; and Phil Dukes won 6-1, 6-7, 6-1. The Gamecocks, only loss of the meet came in the doubles com petition with Desatnik-Paquet losing to Penn States combo of Bortner-Maurta 4-6, 6-3, 2-6. Gamecock victors in doubles were Phil Dukes-Steve Geller, 6-2, 7-5, and Jerry LeGrand-Mark Rosenblum. 6-1, 6-4. USC Coach Ron Smarr said Carolina's problem in the loss to Virginia was losing four matches which went the full three sets. "We have to get tougher mentally," Smarr said. "If we had won the three-set matches we would have won." 'OSA BAY ,L CLOA)ING NJGHT $1.69 with student I D. ) WITH BAKED) POTATO IES, HOT BREAD >CATIONS t Drive, Cayce I, just of f I-26 t. East Columbia